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GRANDI Laetatus sum - Vesper Psalms

Alessandro Grandi – pushed into a distant second place (and quite possibly out of St Mark’s in Venice altogether) by...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2022

DUPARC Complete Songs

Listening to Malcolm Martineau’s album of Duparc’s songs, I was reminded not only how extraordinary they are, but also just...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2022

The Hibernian Muse: Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser

The appointment of Peter Whelan as music director in 2018 has propelled the Irish Baroque Orchestra into an exhilarating new...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2022

CAGE Choral works

There are, I think, two possible approaches to this recording. One is simply to listen through it and let the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2022

BLACKFORD Mirror of Perfection. Vision of A Garden

Richard Blackford definitely has the knack of writing audience-friendly works with singable lines appealing to amateur and professional performers alike....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

BEACH; STANFORD; WOOD 'The Canticle of the Sun'

This splendid album provides a showcase for the talents of 21 singers aged between 18 and 28 brought together for...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2022

Joel von Lerber: Légende

Like a mythical harp-playing bard, Joel von Lerber too is a teller of legends. But such is the Berlin-based Swiss...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2022

Hommage à J. S. B. (Jonian Ilias Kadesha)

An ingenious sequence this, some pieces straying further from a Bachian template than others (Kurtág’s gnomic and texturally varied Signs,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2022

Processional: Organ music by Dom Sebastian Wolff (Richard Lea)

Ad Fontes, perhaps the first record label spawned by a monastery, has produced some gems since its inception in 2019,...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022

VASKS Piano Works (Reinis Zariņš)

This generous album may not contain all of Vasks’s solo piano music (there are three further works omitted here) but,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022

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